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“Philip Jennings: I still haven't been able to pass along your package. It'd be a lot easier if I could do a drop.

William Crandall: Picture this. Some dog sniffing around or some little kid noses into your dead drop.

Philip Jennings: When has that ever happened?

William Crandall: Let's say this is the one time. The dog or the kid opens it. Tens of thousands of people start oozing pus all over the streets of D.C.

Philip Jennings: So it's safe in my house?

William Crandall: What do you want me to say? There's a reason these things are kept in hermetically sealed bio-containment labs.”
— Philip Jennings, The Americans, Season 4: Pastor Tim
Tagged: hazardous materials, bio-containment
“If she said one more thing about nonviolent resistance, I was gonna punch her in the face.”
— Philip Jennings, The Americans, Season 2: Echo
Tagged: Nonviolence, punches, Violence
“Philip Jennings: The painters want to know whether you prefer egg or ivory in the wainscoting in the outer office.

Elizabeth Jennings: What's the difference?

Philip Jennings: The color.”
— Philip Jennings, The Americans, Season 2: Arpanet
Tagged: egg, Ivory, paint colors, Stating the Obvious, wainscoting
“I know you better than you know yourself, but you don't know me at all.”
— Joseph Weisberg, Joel Fields, The Americans, Season 1: The Colonel
Tagged: Perception, Self-knowledge
“Elizabeth Jennings: Congratulations. It was touching. No, it was. I didn't expect it to be. You and I were never really married.

Philip Jennings: No.

Elizabeth Jennings: It's funny I know they're just words people say. Do you think things would have been different between us if we would have said them?

Philip Jennings: I don't know.”
— Phlip Jennings, The Americans, Season 1: The Oath
Tagged: Marriage, marriage oath
“Elizabeth Jennings: Zhukov was right. We can't do our jobs if we're emotional.

Philip Jennings: What happened tonight has nothing to do with emotion.

Elizabeth Jennings: It did for me. My head was somewhere else.

Philip Jennings: Where?

Elizabeth Jennings: Us. Philip, we have to stop this. We were never married. We had an arrangement and it worked.

Philip Jennings: I tried.”
— Phlip Jennings, The Americans, Season 1: Mutually Assured Destruction
Tagged: Emotion, Marriage, arrangements
“What do you want with us? One day, with Arkady and the others at the Rezidentura? Do you want to put them in jail? That's how policeman thinks, not how spies think. We want everyone to stay right where they are, and bleed everything they know out of them. Forever.”
— Nina Krilova, The Americans, Season 1: Mutually Assured Destruction
Tagged: Jail, policemen, Spies
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